08.21.2025 Firm News

130 Williams Mullen Attorneys Named to 2026 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America

Williams Mullen is pleased to announce that 130 of the firm’s lawyers in 65 practice areas were selected for inclusion in the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. In addition, 14 attorneys were also named “Lawyers of the Year” by Best Lawyers® in their respective localities and practice areas.

The recognized attorneys given the title “Lawyers of the Year,” by office location, are:

Columbia, SC

Jessica J.O. King
- Litigation - Environmental

Raleigh, NC

Richard A. Zechini
- Government Relations Practice
Richard T. Matthews
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
Robert C. Van Arnam
- Copyright Law

Richmond, VA

Calvin W. Fowler, Jr.
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
David M. Lay
- Venture Capital Law
Farhad Aghdami
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Tax Law
Gregory R. Bishop
- Corporate Law
Laura D. Windsor
- Employment Law - Management
Michael D. Mueller
- Financial Services Regulation Law

Virginia Beach, VA

David C. Burton
- Labor Law - Management
Grady A. Palmer
- Land Use and Zoning Law
Patrick R. Hanes
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Scott C. Miller
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates

The recognized attorneys given the title “Best Lawyers,” by office location, are:

Charlottesville, VA

Thomas F. Bergert (2023)
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
Valerie Wagner Long (2009)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
Lori H. Schweller (2015)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
Ken Shevlin (2025)
- Corporate Law

Columbia, SC

Jessica J.O. King (2018)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation - Environmental
Ryan W. Trail (2024)
- Environmental Law
Ethan R. Ware (2006)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation - Environmental
Richard H. Willis (1995)
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants

Raleigh, NC

Wyatt M. Booth (2024)
- Real Estate Law
Carrick C. Brooke-Davidson (2008)
- Environmental Law
Miles S. Bruder (2021)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Wes J. Camden (2018)
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Amber R. Duncan (2024)
- Corporate Law
Kelly C. Hanley (2019)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
David L. Hillman (2020)
- Real Estate Law
Thomas H. Johnson, Jr. (2021)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
Gilbert C. Laite III (2007)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation – Construction
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Real Estate Law
Robert Charles Lawson (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Michael C. Lord (2001)
- Employment Law – Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
Richard T. Matthews (2017)
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Patent Law
- Trademark Law
Jennifer A. Morgan (2019)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
David F. Paulson, Jr. (2011)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
F. Michael Sajovec (2013)
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation – Patent
- Patent Law
David M. Saravitz (2023)
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
- Patent Law
Aaron G. Spencer (2015)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Sean M. Sullivan (2020)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation – Environmental
Walter L. Tippett, Jr. (2013)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
Robert C. Van Arnam (2014)
- Copyright Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Patent
- Patent Law
Camden R. Webb (2012)
- Commercial Litigation
Lemuel D. Whitsett V (2024)
- Banking and Finance Law
Richard A. Zechini (2019)
- Government Relations Practice

Richmond, VA

Farhad Aghdami (2006)
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
D. Earl Baggett (2016)
- Employment Law - Management
James T. Bailey (2023)
- Corporate Law
Jeremy A. Ball (2020)
- Health Care Law
William D. Bayliss (2001)
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Real Estate
Wyatt S. Beazley IV (2010)
- Corporate Law
- Health Care Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
William J. Benos (2018)
- Immigration Law
Gregory R. Bishop (2013)
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Jonathan H. Bliley (2023)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
J.P. McGuire Boyd, Jr. (2019)
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
Turner A. Broughton (2013)
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
Jamie Watkins Bruno (2019)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
W. Alexander Burnett (2017)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Litigation - Construction
Matthew E. Cheek (2012)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
Janet W. Cho (2022)
- Copyright Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Trademark Law
Matthew M. Cobb (2018)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Health Care Law
Jenny Connors (2022)
- Corporate Law
- Tax Law
Richard P. Cunningham, Jr. (2016)
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
Steven D. Delaney (2007)
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Real Estate Law
Anna Derewenda (2023)
- Corporate Law
- Tax Law
Robert C. Dewar (2009)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Brydon M. DeWitt (2024)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Allison T. Domson (2015)
- Real Estate Law
Daniel J. Durst (2018)
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
Calvin W. Fowler, Jr. (2009)
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
Jonathan A. Frank (2018)
- Real Estate Law
W.F. Drewry Gallalee (2011)
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
J. Conrad Garcia (2009)
- Tax Law
Philip H. Goodpasture (2007)
- Corporate Law
- Entertainment Law - Music
- Media Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Alexander C. Graham, Jr. (2016)
- Leisure and Hospitality Law
Andrea J. Harlow (2019)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
Meredith M. Haynes (2023)
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Insurance
Sean D. Hicks (2025)
- Real Estate Law
A. Brooks Hock (2007)
- Real Estate Law
Eileen Setien Jackson (2025)
- Real Estate Law
Charles E. James, Jr. (2015)
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Harold E. Johnson (2020)
- Litigation - Insurance
- Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
- Litigation - Securities
Stephanie P. Karn (*)
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
Matthew B. Kirsner (2011)
- Commercial Litigation
Otto W. Konrad (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Nathan A. Kottkamp (2024)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Health Care Law
Kathy A. Lawrence (2025)
- Corporate Law
- Real Estate Law
David M. Lay (2013)
- Corporate Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Venture Capital Law
Gary D. LeClair (2006)
- Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice
- Corporate Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law
- Venture Capital Law
Lee G. Lester (2022)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Jennifer Ligon (2025)
- Health Care Law
T. Preston Lloyd, Jr. (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Channing J. Martin (2007)
- Environmental Law
- Litigation - Environmental
Jamie Baskerville Martin (2005)
- Health Care Law
Nona K. Massengill (2024)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Tax Law
Benjamin A. McCall (2022)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Mary Katherine McGetrick (2017)
- Real Estate Law
Jennifer M. McLemore (2013)
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Bankruptcy
John M. Mercer (2008)
- Real Estate Law
Michael D. Mueller (2022)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Financial Services Regulation Law
R. Joseph Noble (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Lauren D. Nowlin (2024)
- Real Estate Law
Brendan D. O'Toole (2017)
- Commercial Litigation
W. Benjamin Pace (2016)
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Richard D. Palmieri (2025)
- Corporate Law
Laurence V. Parker, Jr. (2022)
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Henry R. Pollard V (2018)
- Environmental Law
Marc Purintun (2013)
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
Scott H. Richter (2010)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Securities Regulation
Douglas L. Sbertoli (2011)
- Corporate Law
Edward R. Turnbull (2022)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Thomas G. Voekler (2019)
- Real Estate Law
John L. Walker III (2007)
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
- Litigation - Real Estate
Lauren W. Waller (2023)
- Commercial Litigation
Andrew W. White (2016)
- Corporate Governance Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Edward T. White (2015)
- Copyright Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Trademark Law
Laura D. Windsor (2015)
- Employment Law - Management
- Insurance Law
- Labor Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
Kyle H. Wingfield (2024)
- Litigation and Controversy - Tax
- Tax Law

Tysons, VA

David B. Albo (2024)
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Criminal Defense: General Practice
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
Clinton H. Brannon (2023)
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
Brian Cashmere (2016)
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Litigation - Construction
Edmund D. Harllee (1997)
- Banking and Finance Law
Arnie B. Mason (2018)
- Construction Law
- Litigation - Construction
Bradley J. Nowak (2024)
- Energy Regulatory Law
Robert F. Riley (2020)
- Energy Law

Virginia Beach, VA

George H. Bowles (2011)
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
David C. Burton (2008)
- Employment Law - Management
- Labor Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
Elizabeth S. Chapman (2025)
- Real Estate Law
Benjamin C. Crumpler (2020)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
Alyssa C. Dangler (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Anne E. Domozick (2022)
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
John F. Faber, Jr. (2018)
- Real Estate Law
Thomas R. Frantz (1983)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
Patrick R. Hanes (2018)
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Patent
Meagan J. Kalantar (2024)
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Venture Capital Law
Monroe Kelly III (2008)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Real Estate Law
Samuel M. Kroll (2024)
- Corporate Law
Scott C. Miller (2022)
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Insurance
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Grady A. Palmer (2024)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law
John M. Paris, Jr. (2011)
- Corporate Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Tax Law
- Venture Capital Law
Christine Nguyen Piersall (2018)
- Trusts and Estates
Amy G. Pruett (*)
- Entertainment Law - Music
Cartwright R. Reilly (2021)
- Real Estate Law
Stephen R. Romine (2006)
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Real Estate Law